Danger and opputunities coexisted, this was among the most dangerous regions in the country and they had barely put a step onto the first layer and he had found so many opportunities for this place.
Caw caw
" What's that noice" asked Jiang Shaojun
" That's our first obstacle, I'll explain on the way, these birds have extremely sharp talons that can penetrate most defensive equipment so use defensive spells and they are more vulnerable to lightning and Ice spells" said Captain Rai as he observed a pack of birds flying at the group in a V formation.
The birds looked unevolved and almost primitive in body composition. They were extremely fast and resembled Herons from Earth, but were much larger.
The smallest wingspan in the upcoming flock of birds was a metre and half and with the largest one being atleast twenty metres. They were fast and could easily navigate around the roots, vines and branches and use them to their advantage.
" Be careful, they are also very good at baiting attacks and dodging while another of their flock ambushes you" Captain Rai warned before he and his men engaged the Archaic Demon Herons.
The group of soldiers around the Captain used Ice Locks and Earth Barriers to close the space they could escape to, sort of building a closed room with the only way out being up.
Under the eyes of team, A green Constellation appeared as the faint signs of Wind Domain appeared.
Wings of Wind.
Captain Rai streched his arms out wide as he blew the winds away from him, instead of forming pairs of wings around him, the decompressed air blew out like a storm towards the sky.
The demon Herons that came into the blast zone experienced extremely tiny particles of compressed air piercing their skin with excruciating pain and alacrity and were blown up as a result.
Atleast fifty of the Archaic Demon Herons from Lesser Minion to Advancing Warriors were dead in an instant thanks to the guy's extraordinary control.
That's a third tier Advanced spell and a Soul seed with a Domain, and he seems young and close to the Super level, they really don't want us to die here, makes sense if another National sent a team to train in the Qinling mountains for the World College tournament, the military would be under pressure as well.
People could say that these mages are responsible for their safety and what not, but ultimately most of these mages came from a faction and none of them actually wanted an accident to happen.
" There are more of them coming, try to hit them against the trees branches or canopies, they have extremely fast speed and attack but they are quite fragiler than other Demon Beasts."
Although Captain Rai made the process seem easy it was obviously not as atleast ten thousand of these Herons were attacking this military convoy, an oddly enough the soldiers did not look all that suprised.
Now that the soldiers were using spells, the members of the national team could observe their strength without being intrusive and were suprised as they were atleast elites among Intermediate mages and above.
Only then they had realised that the national team advisors had sent them to a crazily dangerous hell hole.
Whiffs light and Lightning spread around Cao Guang as he hid his his Fire, Earth and Space element from the eyes of the soldiers and the Captain, hehe it was too early for his prowess to be discerned.
Cao Guang spread out his awareness as he felt the number of the Demon Herons not decreasing in the slightest. The three and forty battle mages had build a proper formation and stance to stave off the mad offensive of the birds.
They had formed a mini fort on the roots of three different mangrove trees and held their ground and rotated among themselves before releasing their spells.
As they were previously instructed the members of the national team were also part of the structure due to the situation and were rotating with the soldiers.
Their timing and chemistry was off due to a lack of familiarity and caused some problems for the squad that Captain Rai needed to smooth out. The battle had gone on for hours until the Sunset arrived and calmed the birds down for fear for an even more dangerous species.
During this period three different Marsh gas expulsions had happened near the team, although the poison was neutralized for the time being the atmosphere was completely intolerable for the young masters and mistresses who had rarely ventured out of the safe zones.